On July 5, 1933, Irena Ludmila Vladimirovna Augustynowic was born in Warsaw, Poland.Her family, who are of Polish and Russian heritage, left Poland prior to World War II.
She was given the name Irene Montwill after they moved to New York and changed their last name to Montwill.
They made their home in New York, where Janti studied music and acting at the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts before transferring to the High School of Performing Arts when it opened in 1948.
However, her family moved her final year in high school to Fort Pierce, Florida where she graduated from St. Lucie High School and then began attending courses at the University of Miami.
Shortly her family moved to Peru where her father had a business interest.
Her involvement in English-language theater caught the attention of Hollywood producer Dick Welding, who offered her a role in the Peruvian film Daughter of the Sun God. William Holmes played the lead in the 1953 film, though it wasn’t released until 1962.
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